Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Beautiful Heart

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

One grandfather quipped about his grandchildren: “My grandkids are four and six. The Pulitzer Prize winner is four and the brain surgeon is six.”

Parents and grandparents are understandably proud of the quick minds and impressive talents of their little ones. But let me tell you about another quality, perhaps even more important, found in a little girl named Skylar. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: When Love is For Real

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Two lovers were talking and she said to him, “I don’t have a lot of money. I don’t have a brand new sports car and a yacht like Lisa Turner, but I love you with all my heart.”

He said to her, “I love you, too. But tell me more about Lisa Turner.” Tennessee Williams might have said that he had “all the sincerity of a bird-hunter’s whis¬tle.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Cure for Intolerance

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Intolerance is an infectious social disease. It has always been prevalent and is usually spread by fear and misunderstanding. It sometimes infects religious communities, too. Mark Twain noticed it in his daytime. He said that he built a cage and put a cat and a dog in it. After a while they learned to get along. Then he added a bird, a goat and a pig. After some adjustments they, too, got along. Then he added a Baptist, a Presbyterian and a Catholic. Soon there was nothing left alive in the cage.

Back in 1534 Abbot Paul Bachmann wrote a virulent anti-Protestant booklet titled “A Punch in the Mouth for the Lutheran Lying Wide-Gaping Throats.” Not to take it on the chin, Protestants responded with a treatise by Court Chaplain Jerome Rauscher titled “One Hundred Select, Great, Shameless Fat, Well-Swilled, Stinking Papistical Lies.” And the disease spread. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Living With Romance

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

One woman tells this story about her parents. She says that they had ot been out together in quite some time. One Saturday, as her mother was finishing the dinner dishes, her father stepped up behind  her.

“Would you like to go out, girl?” he asked. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Grow Antennae

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

A story, which may be relegated to the files of “urban legends,” tells about a Philadelphia legal firm that sent flowers to an associate in Baltimore upon the opening of its new offices. Through some mix-up, the ribbon that bedecked the floral piece read, “Deepest Sympathy.”

When the florist was duly informed of her mistake, she let out a cry of alarm. “Good grief! Then the flowers that went to the funeral said, ‘Congratulations On Your New Location!’” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: How is Your Practicing Coming Along?

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

“I grew up with six brothers,” says comedian Bob Hope. “That’s how I learned to dance, waiting to get into the bathroom.”

Patience may not come easily for you. But whether or not you share a bathroom with others, you can get plenty of practice. We’re presented daily with amply opportunity to learn patience. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: One Light

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Imagine an artist painting a winter scene. She depicts a white, frozen ground and evergreens draped in snow. Her hand brings the day to a close as she paints night falling on the canvas. In the deep shadows of dusk, she has painted a grim, log cabin, barely visible to the casual observer.

Then she dips her brush in yellow paint and, with a few quick strokes, places a brightly burning lamp in one of the cabin’s windows. Warm rays dance on white snow, now made brighter by the light. The lonely lamp wholly changes the tone of the picture, replacing feelings of dark and gloom with warmth and security. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Ask For It!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

A snooty millionaire took some of his upper class friends yachting. They passed a deserted island where a man with a long beard and tattered clothes stood, waving his arms and screaming in their direction. “Who is that?” asked the friend.

“I don’t know,” said the millionaire, “but every time we sail by he goes crazy.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Leave the Past

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Are you ever disturbed by memories? Wouldn’t it be nice to simply click the delete key and erase the pain while leaving only happy recollections?

I like the story of the minister who passed along to a beginning pastor a trick he used when he noticed the congregation nodding off. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Great Word

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

I heard a funny story of an ancient monastery charged with copying old books and scrolls for the faith.

One day, Father Florian, who headed the work of the scriptorium, was asked by a new monk: “Does not the copying by hand of other copies allow for chances of error? How do we know we are not copying the mistakes of someone else? Are they ever checked against the  originals?” Read more

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